DSS Europe Shifts Dates Ahead Several Weeks To Dodge Crowds, Costs Of Big 2024 Sports Events November 16, 2023 by Super User Big sporting events in the region next summer have prompted the organizers of the excellent Digital Signage Summit Europe to shift it ahead several weeks, into late May. The DSS event put together by Munich-based invidis and business partner Integrated Systems Events usually runs in early July, but the European football championship tournament and then …
Las Vegas Sphere Gets Worked Into This Weekend’s F1 Race November 16, 2023 by Super User Few people would be surprised to learn the Sphere in Las Vegas will be highly visible during this week’s Formula One race sessions, but the degree of the giant LED ball’s involvement is perhaps more than expected. The company behind the attention-grabbing new venue has done a deal with the F1 people to use the …
JFK’s T4 Adds 11 Synect ReadySeeGo Totems To Guide, Inform Air Travelers At TSA Checkpoints November 15, 2023 by Super User The private operators of Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York has added 11 of Synect’s ReadySeeGo Digital Communication Totems to a pair of TSA security checkpoints, in an effort to help travelers get through the rigamarole of commercial air travel. The LCD totems use Synect’s Passenger360 visual communication platform to …
DSF Opens Voting For Open Board Seats For 2024; Six Candidates For Four Slots November 15, 2023 by Super User Voting starts today for open, at-large director positions on the board of the non-profit Digital Signage Federation, with six very familiar industry folks vying for four available positions. Elections open at 11 AM EST today. The candidates are: Tony Green of Snap Install (running for 2nd term); Kristin Roubie of Elo Touch (running for 2nd …
Being In Europe Full Time Generating Business For Chinese LED Display Vendor Dahua November 15, 2023 by Super User I get inundated daily by emails and Linkedin requests from Chinese LED manufacturers I’ve never heard of, while just about every LED project I write about – if it is outside of China – uses product from a relatively short list of major Chinese vendors like Absen, Leyard, Sansi and Unilumin. So it’s interesting to …
Vast Abu Dhabi Mosque Using Fine Pitch LED Ribbon Displays To Guide Visitors November 15, 2023 by Super User Here’s an interesting application of fine pitch LED to deliver what I’d call boring but very useful digital signage – wayfinding in a big mosque. This is in the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi. The Wikipedia page for the place of worship says it is the largest of its kind in that country …
Intuiface Says Its Just-Launched Player Next Gen Software Enables Cross-Channel Delivery Of Rich Interactive Experiences November 15, 2023 by Super User The French software firm Intuiface has advanced new interactive player capabilities from broad beta testing to general availability, making it possible for solutions providers and end-users to create and deploy rich interactive experiences on any screen, whether using a device’s native player software or a progressive web app on a browser. Player Next Gen is …
New Phoenix Casino Makes LED Halo Over Gaming Floor Bar A Focal Point For Guests November 15, 2023 by Super User Here’s a great example of how LED is increasingly becoming a material for people who design built spaces – in this case a splashy new casino in the greater Phoenix area. The Santan Mountain Casino in Chandler is a 160,000-square-foot gaming destination features that, among many things, has a central bar that serves as a …
InfoComm Is Still Many Months Off, But Organizers Closing Call For Presenters Soon November 14, 2023 by Super User InfoComm is many months off – June 2024 in Las Vegas – but the AVIXA people who organize the big pro AV trade show are already telling the digital signage and AV communities their people better chop-chop if they want to get time in front of a conference microphone. From AVIXA: There are just over …
Jetbuilt’s DSE Presence To Show How Platform Bridges Organizational Silos And Streamlines AV Project Planning November 14, 2023 by Super User Having gone to a few trade shows through the years, I’ve often walked right on past exhibit stands because I either had no idea what the company did or how what they had applied to the industry, so a big hat tip to a vendor that will be at DSE in a few weeks, who …
